Announcements
Brief items
Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2012 videos posted
The folks at Free Electrons have posted videos from the talks given at the Embedded Linux Conference 2012 in Barcelona. While they were at it, they also posted videos from the embedded track at FOSDEM 2012; as they say, "better late than never".
Articles of interest
Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz
Cory Doctorow reflects on the life of Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-founder and co-author (at age 14) of the RSS specification, who committed suicide on January 11. "The post-Reddit era in Aaron's life was really his coming of age. His stunts were breathtaking. At one point, he singlehandedly liberated 20 percent of US law. PACER, the system that gives Americans access to their own (public domain) case-law, charged a fee for each such access. After activists built RECAP (which allowed its users to put any caselaw they paid for into a free/public repository), Aaron spent a small fortune fetching a titanic amount of data and putting it into the public domain. The feds hated this. They smeared him, the FBI investigated him, and for a while, it looked like he'd be on the pointy end of some bad legal stuff, but he escaped it all, and emerged triumphant."
Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz (ars technica)
Ars technica reports that the United States Attorney has dropped the pending charges against Aaron Swartz. ""In support of this dismissal, the government states that Mr. Swartz died on January 11, 2013," wrote Carmen Ortiz, the United States Attorney for the District Court of Massachusetts. Swartz faced legal charges after he infamously downloaded a huge cache of documents from JSTOR. Over the weekend, Swartz' family said the aggressive legal tactics of the US Attorney's office contributed to his suicide."
First FOSDEM 2013 speaker interviews
As with previous years, Koen Vervloesem is interviewing speakers at FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting), which will be held February 2-3 in Brussels, Belgium. In this edition, eight speakers from the conference are interviewed, more will be coming over the next few weeks. From the Luc Verhaegen interview: "This talk will be a relatively high level description of the current situation with open source 3D/GPU drivers for the ARM ecosystem. It will not only show how far the Lima driver has come in a years time, it will also cover the other ARM GPU projects and the persons driving those. It will end with a demo of the current lima driver work, and then I’ll try to drag as many people as possible over to the X.org devroom where the other ARM GPU developers can go into more detail and demo their stuff."
Software Wars: A film about FOSS, collaboration, and software freedom (Opensource.com)
Opensource.com has an interview with Keith Curtis about a movie he is making, called Software Wars. "Because the movie is an explanation but also a critique of the existing world, this happily forces us to cover things that many technical people don't know. If they all knew what was in the movie, more crazy things would have happened. The trailer is a first attempt at achieving this balance. The final feature will be more polished in every regard. There are a mix of people working on this with different experiences and interests and together we will hammer it out."
January Issue of the TIM Review: Open Source Sustainability
The January issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review (TIM Review) has been published. The editorial theme for this issue is Open Source Sustainability. The articles in this edition are "Editorial: Open Source Sustainability (January 2013)" by Chris McPhee and Maha Shaikh; "Sustainability in Open Source Software Commons: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study of SourceForge Projects" by Charles M. Schweik; "Sustainability of Open Collaborative Communities: Analyzing Recruitment Efficiency" by Kevin Crowston, Nicolas Jullien and Felipe Ortega; "Going Open: Does it Mean Giving Away Control?" by Nadia Noori and Michael Weiss; "The Evolving Role of Open Source Software in Medicine and Health Services" by David Ingram and Sevket Seref Arikan; "Sustainability and Governance in Developing Open Source Projects as Processes of In-Becoming" by Daniel Curto-Millet; and "Q&A. Is Open Source Sustainable?" by Matt Asay. (Thanks to Martin Michlmayr)
New Books
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!--New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!" by Fred Hébert.
Calls for Presentations
Euro LLVM Conference
The third European LLVM conference will take place April 29-30, 2013 in Paris, France. "This will be a two day conference which aims to present the latest developments in the LLVM world and help strengthen the network of LLVM developers. The format will be similar to that of the previous meetings held in London but with more time for presentations and networking. The meeting is open to anyone whether from business or academia, professional or enthusiast and is not restricted to those from Europe - attendees from all regions are welcome." The CfP deadline is March 1.
samba eXPerience 2013 - call for papers
samba eXPerience 2013 will take place May 14-17 in Göttingen, Germany. The call for papers deadline is February 28.Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day 2013
Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day will take place May 30 in Prague, Czech Republic. The call for papers closes April 14. "Majority of the talks will be in czech language, but we're looking for two english-speaking guest. We can offer covering travel and hotel expenses up to ~ 500 EUR (should be enough for 2 nights in a hotel and air ticket from around Europe)."
Texas Linux Fest 2013
Texas Linux Fest will take place May 31-June 1 in Austin, Texas. The Call For Papers is open until April 1.
Upcoming Events
Announcing PyCon Australia 2013
PyCon Australia will take place July 5-7 in Hobart, Tasmania. "Once again, we'll have a weekend packed full of amazing content on all aspects of the Python ecosystem, presented by experts and core developers of the tools and frameworks you use every day."
Events: January 17, 2013 to March 18, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 18 January 20 |
FUDCon:Lawrence 2013 | Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
| January 18 January 19 |
Columbus Python Workshop | Columbus, OH, USA |
| January 20 | Berlin Open Source Meetup | Berlin, Germany |
| January 28 February 2 |
Linux.conf.au 2013 | Canberra, Australia |
| February 2 February 3 |
Free and Open Source software Developers' European Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 15 February 17 |
Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2013 Winter Edition | Minsk, Belarus |
| February 18 February 19 |
Android Builders Summit | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| February 20 February 22 |
Embedded Linux Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| February 22 February 24 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| February 22 February 24 |
FOSSMeet 2013 | Calicut, India |
| February 22 February 24 |
Mini DebConf at FOSSMeet 2013 | Calicut, India |
| February 23 February 24 |
DevConf.cz 2013 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| February 25 March 1 |
ConFoo | Montreal, Canada |
| February 26 March 1 |
GUUG Spring Conference 2013 | Frankfurt, Germany |
| February 26 February 28 |
ApacheCon NA 2013 | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| February 26 February 28 |
O’Reilly Strata Conference | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| March 4 March 8 |
LCA13: Linaro Connect Asia | Hong Kong, China |
| March 6 March 8 |
Magnolia Amplify 2013 | Miami, FL, USA |
| March 9 March 10 |
Open Source Days 2013 | Copenhagen, DK |
| March 13 March 21 |
PyCon 2013 | Santa Clara, CA, US |
| March 15 March 17 |
German Perl Workshop | Berlin, Germany |
| March 15 March 16 |
Open Source Conference | Szczecin, Poland |
| March 16 March 17 |
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2013 | Chemnitz, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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